{"id":5389,"date":"2023-09-27T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T15:49:26","slug":"purdue-turf-professor-weighs-differences-between-natural-and-artificial-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/Q3\/purdue-turf-professor-weighs-differences-between-natural-and-artificial-turf","title":{"rendered":"Purdue turf professor weighs differences between natural and artificial turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"purdue-initial-words-wrap\"><p class=\"purdue-initial-words\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash;<\/p> \n<p>As a debate arises in the NFL and other professional sports over the benefits of choosing natural or artificial turf for athletic fields, Cale Bigelow, professor of horticulture and landscape architecture in Purdue University\u2019s College of Agriculture, suggests that both turf types have positives and negatives to consider.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bigelow, who specializes in turfgrass science and management, explains that injury rates for athletes depend on multiple factors, making it difficult to position one turf type as better than the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat we know about natural grass fields is that they\u2019re really good and actually preferred by a lot of athletes, but they are also limited by how much they can grow and recover,\u201d Bigelow said. \u201cBut what I can also tell you is a frozen natural grass field is not as safe for athletes as a nonfrozen synthetic field.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bigelow is available for interviews on this topic by Zoom and in person on Purdue\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash; As a debate arises in the NFL and other professional sports over the benefits of choosing natural or artificial turf for athletic fields, Cale Bigelow, professor of horticulture and landscape architecture in Purdue University\u2019s College of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5392,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}